Tag: Zanu-PF

Zimbabwe’s ruling party is growing increasingly nervous that it could lose power in its first election without Robert Mugabe at its helm against an opposition emboldened by the end of the 37-year rule of the liberation struggle leader. Three members of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s politburo, its most […]

Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front president Emmerson Mnangagwa will launch the much awaited party manifesto on Friday next week, 4 May. Party Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu said: “This is going to be a big, big occasion. We’re expecting all the provinces to converge in Harare where we will introduce […]

Zimbabwe’s new president Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly facing an internal revolt “after it emerged his calls for polls to go ahead as early as August could be resisted by his own Zanu-PF MPs”. According to The Standard, Zanu-PF legislatures wanted the forthcoming elections postponed by at least three years as the […]

Zimbabwe’s new president on Friday visited the country’s main opposition leader who is battling cancer, but immediately ruled out sharing power. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, accompanied by a former military leader who recently was appointed vice president, met with former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai at his home. It was a symbolic gesture by Mnangagwa, […]